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Published 4:00 am, Monday, January 24, 2000

PleasantonSeven employees of an In-N-Out Burgers restaurant were tied up during an early-morning armed robbery, but escaped injury.

Police said two armed men, described only as wearing rubber masks and white work clothing, were waiting at the restaurant's back door at 6015 Johnson Drive when the first employee arrived Sunday. As more employees showed up for work, they were tied up and locked in an employee locker room. When the manager arrived, he was forced to open the restaurant's safe.

Police said the robbers fled shortly before 8:30 a.m. with an undetermined amount of money. No one reported seeing the getaway vehicle.

CupertinoThe Santa Clara County Coroner's Office has identified a 17-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed during a brawl in the parking lot of a Cupertino bowling alley as Cesar Pena of Redwood City.

Authorities have arrested two possible suspects, a 17-year-old from Santa Clara and a 16-year-old from San Jose, and were looking for 19- year-old Teklezgi Habte Gebrezgiabher of Los Altos in connection with the incident Friday night at the Brunswick Bowl.

Santa Clara County sheriff's Sgt. John Hirokawa said Pena was sitting in a parked car when several people approached the driver's side of the car, exchanged words with him and a friend, then punched Pena several times through an open window.

Hirokawa says at least two suspects fought with Pena when he got out of the car and that both Pena and his friend were stabbed when his friend tried to

San FranciscoTwo San Francisco men were shot in the chest but remain in stable condition, leaving investigators to sort out what caused the shooting.

Police said the victims in the 4:30 p.m. Sunday shooting at 58 West Point in Bayview/Hunters Point were uncooperative even about giving their identities, although one of the men is believed to be 21 years old. The motive for the shooting remains a mystery.